Obama decides to attack his predecessor during the ceremony where the portrait of President G.W. Bush was being unveiled. Obama is a small man precisely because incapable of taking responsibility for anything negative. He continues to blame the current miserable state of economy on anyone but himself. So far the stated reasons for the economy has being lackluster are, ‘Bush‘, ‘warm winter’, ‘the dollar is high’, ‘robots’, ‘Japanese earth quake’, ‘high oil prices’, ‘cold winter’, ‘the internet’, ‘Bush‘, ‘low oil prices’, the dollar is low’, ‘Republicans’, ‘housing prices are falling’, ‘Bush‘, ‘ATMs’, ‘climate Change’. ‘Wall Street’, — it is a litany of woe. That he does so at an event that is supposed to celebrate his predecessor only cheapens him all the more. Classless. Clueless. Frankly, Obama is getting kind of creepy.

The POTUS’ lack of self awareness is becoming laughable. He attacks people for going to Vegas and then proceeds to go on vacation more than any other U.S. President. He attacks Republican Lobbyists for lobbying, and then places a myriad of Democrat Lobbyists on the Whitehouse staff. He attacks Wall Street, and then proceeds to stuff his administration with insiders from Wall Street, and, accepts more campaign donations from Wall Street than any other U.S. President. This goes beyond conflict of interest — it ventures into being down right conflicted. He and his harridan wife lecture us about eating right, and the he sneaks off for a burger BBQ? The rich need to pay their fair share!! Obama, the $10,000,000.00 man, hires accountants and pays an effective rate of 20.5%? The irony! The hypocrisy! It burns!!

Seriously? Mere mention of the economic crisis makes praising his predecessor for working closely with him during the Presidential transition an attack on Bush?

Your automatic characterization of this rather pro forma recognition speech as placing blame for the collapse suggests that you know who deserves it: the Bush Administration.

Written by BlackOut about 3 years ago.

Oh come on! Drop the politics here. This is a snapshot in time. Both administrations realized we had issues with the economy. Mostly due to fighting two wars. They both worked together to move the country forward and both seem to respect each other. Both worked on a legitimate transition and that is what a patriotic heart does. Drop the politics and consider the fate of our country. Apparently both a republican president and a democrat president addressed that with integrity. You should too.

Written by Wolverine about 3 years ago.

Did BlackOut actually say that?!!! “Oh come on! Drop the politics here.”!!!!!???? Was that the real BlackOut from TC, or are we getting some trolls here stealing blog handles?

“Drop the politics here.” My, my, gotta be one of those trolls for certain. If not, we should cue the band to play “The World Turned Upside Down” — just like at Yorktown.

Written by Lovisa about 3 years ago.

What trashing??? “All presidents have an obligation to pull together …” Trashing???

Obama praised Bush and his staff for their assistance during the transition during a difficult time in the country’s history and you call that trashing?

Written by Cathymac about 3 years ago.

The Obama Administration repects the Bush administration?

Written by BlackOut about 3 years ago.

Wolverine, sometimes we should admire our republic and this is one of them. Two administrations together in the White House breaking bread. The clip was made into something political, I imagine Fox Entertainment will live off of this for at least a couple of days. I don’t hear Bush complaining about the statement. And since you only made a personal attack with your comment, I’ll assume you agree with the content of my opinion.

Some need to remove their rose-colored glasses and recognise a blatant slap at another President for what it is…. ill-mannered and crass beyond compare.

Why the need to make reference to the “purported” mess that he supposedly inherited well before his THREE YEARS of supposed fixes? Because, it takes some of the sting off of his failed administration’s three stooges act over those three years…..that’s why.

Evidently, Obama is no more self-aware than the retards that he trots out every week attacking yet another group of Americans in the name of reelection. If they were as smart as they think they are, we’d be in REAL trouble…but thankfully they are as inept at reading the public as this failure of a president.

Written by BlackOut about 3 years ago.

Oh Monk chill out. Until you actually hear Bush say he felt insulted you’re just ramping up a bunch of right wing rhetoric. I know it doesn’t help your cause, but seems to me both Bush and Obama are in agreement that the economy was in bad shape at that time in history.

Yeah, Jacob….it wasn’t lost on me. I actually chuckled out loud at the apologistic nature of his half-hearted MSDNC talking points.

Written by Wolverine about 3 years ago.

BO, you still are not too quick at recognizing a joshing nudge in the ribs. I guess I’ll have to start using those smiley faces. Now, if you want to tell me that you are not “political” against conservatives on these blogs every day in every way, well, I’ll have to start yelling that the Red Coats are coming — if you get my drift.

Admire our republic? Amen. Come to the defense of a guy who thinks and says on a regular basis that the other guys are pure evil, eh, not so much. Personally, I ignored it. I was waiting for the latest employment stats. Just heard them. It is heartburn Friday again. Now, I will tell you that, if Mitt Romney gets into the Oval Office and the “official” unemployment rate is still 8.2% after 3+ years, he also will not get away with blaming it on his predecessor.

Written by BlackOut about 3 years ago.

Wolverine, chill out it’s the weekend.

Interesting that you would antidote with the Red Coats are coming. Much controversy over by whom and where and if that yell was given. Some say it never was yelled and most likely they are right. Some say PR yelled it, others say it was in 1812.

It certainly wasn’t the British are coming, which some folks think was yelled by Paul Revere. Wouldn’t be that in my opinion, many in the colonies considered themselves British at the time, so yelling the British are coming wouldn’t make sense. So if PR did yell something it probably would of been something about the regulars or the redcoats. Both common names for the King’s army. Some say PR didn’t yell anything at all as his mission was one of secrecy and he would not have been calling attention to himself with regulars and spies crawling all over the place.

In my opinion Paul Revere should be more famous for his metal smithing. His cooper techniques became a critical element on the hulls of our first frigates. He also worked most of the brass and other metals on the warship.

I guess we can conclude a lot of speculation and controversy rides around that yell. (I should mention the War of 1812 could have also been a source for the quote) So I sorta see your connection of that yell to your opinion of my “politics”. To each his own, should would consider you my own Longfellow, have a nice weekend.

Written by BlackOut about 3 years ago.

…some would consider

Written by Wolverine about 3 years ago.

Good weekend to you as well, BO. Keep safe.

Ahem, I wasn’t thinking about Paul Revere in that post. More like the “political” discussion you, I, Lloyd, and LI had on TC about the red-coated US Army Fife and Drum Corps on that LCRC PR piece issued some time ago. Darn!! So much politics flying around on these blogs that I may have to start using footnotes as references!!

Written by BlackOut about 3 years ago.

No worries Wolverine, you and I can keep up, damn the rest. And yes, it’s a beautiful weekend. Every day is a beautiful day. Cheers.